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CVE-2012-5855 (GCVE-0-2012-5855)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-07-10 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 21:21

Summary

The SHAddToRecentDocs function in VideoLAN VLC media player 2.0.4 and earlier might allow user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted file name that triggers an incorrect string-length calculation when the file is added to VLC. NOTE: it is not clear whether this issue crosses privilege boundaries or whether it can be exploited without user interaction.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/524626	mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def…	vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=135274330022215&w=2	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST

Date Public

2012-11-05 00:00

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FKIE_CVE-2012-5855

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2013-07-10 19:55 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:47

Severity

Summary

References

URL	Tags
cve@mitre.org	http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=135274330022215&w=2
cve@mitre.org	http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/524626	Exploit
cve@mitre.org	https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16781
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=135274330022215&w=2
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/524626	Exploit
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16781

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
videolan	vlc_media_player	*
videolan	vlc_media_player	2.0.0
videolan	vlc_media_player	2.0.1
videolan	vlc_media_player	2.0.2
videolan	vlc_media_player	2.0.3

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GHSA-F677-MR7Q-HH8X

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-17 00:57 – Updated: 2022-05-17 00:57

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GSD-2012-5855

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:20

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CVE-2012-5855

Aliases

CVE-2012-5855

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ubuntu-cve-2012-5855 Withdrawn 2025-06-23

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2013-07-10 19:55

Modified

2013-07-10 19:55

Summary

Details

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2012-5855	REPORT
	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/12	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-5855	REPORT

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      },
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        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS",
        "name": "vlc",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/vlc?arch=src?distro=trusty/esm"
      },
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GSD-2012-5855

ubuntu-cve-2012-5855 Withdrawn 2025-06-23

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